025: Dov Baron on Living the Entrepreneurial Dream and Then Losing Everything
Your First Thousand Clients with Mitch Russo
Mitch Russo
5.0 • 104 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Dov Baron is a masterful storyteller who was named Inc Magazine's Top 100 leadership speakers. He is the leading authority on authentic leadership and founder of Full Monty Leadership and The Authentic Speaker Academy for Leadership. We’ve been friends for a long time and I really think you will enjoy this conversation.
We’ll discuss:
- Dov’s background and how he got into entrepreneurship
- First entrepreneurial venture and how Dov was started making money early on
- Importance of over delivering in business
- Listen to what's said, unsaid, and how it's said
- The concept of unconscious competence
- Betting on the skills that come naturally to you
- A quick quiz that YOU can take which will bring out the genius in you
- The story of the first speaking gig Dov ever did
- Lessons on never judging a person based on their appearance
- Learning to speak authentically
- The flow state and how to be your “true self”
- The speaking tour in Australia
- Dov’s free climbing accident and how everything changed overnight
- The quiet whisper inside of us that we shouldn’t ignore
- Importance of appreciation
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
- Full Monty Leadership
- The Authentic Speaker Academy for Leadership
- Gift to the Listeners - Take The Self Assessment Gift
- Dov's Personal Email
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to your first thousand clients with Mitch Russo. |
| 0:08.0 | So listeners, what would happen if I were able to bring you one of Inc magazine's top 100 leadership speakers, |
| 0:18.4 | Mr. Dove Barron, a masterful storyteller, considered by many as the leading authority on authentic leadership |
| 0:27.1 | and founder of full monthy leadership and the Authentic Speaker Academy for Leadership. |
| 0:34.7 | And Dove and I have been friends for some time now and I really admire this guy. |
| 0:40.0 | He's an amazing international speaker to 30 years. |
| 0:43.7 | He's the man with a finger on the pulse |
| 0:46.3 | of the evolving world of next-gen leadership. |
| 0:50.8 | Welcome to the show, Dove, so happy to have you with us. |
| 0:54.0 | Thank you so much Mitch. It's an honor to be here. It's a real pleasure and I'm really hoping that I can serve you and your audience with some real juicy treats. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, you know, we have to start with that accent. |
| 1:08.0 | So give us some background on where you're from. |
| 1:11.0 | Tell us that story. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, the accent is |
| 1:13.2 | labradoodle as I like to say. I live I live in Vancouver, Canada and I have lived |
| 1:18.9 | here for more than 20 years. I moved here from Australia where I lived for many years I was in Asia and |
| 1:24.5 | Indonesia before that before that was one year in East Coast Canada and before |
| 1:29.2 | that a little bit of time in Europe but I was born in the UK been gone out of the UK for |
| 1:33.4 | more than 40 years so it's a bit of everything it's a bit labradoodle as I said yeah no that's great |
| 1:38.7 | that's great it's a very distinctive accent it's not any of those things individually and that's what makes |
| 1:44.4 | it stand out so nicely and you speak so clearly as well which is great. |
| 1:48.3 | Thank you my friend. Of course. So you know what we're going to do we're going going to go back in time. We're going to strap ourselves into the time machine and we're going to go back to when you really, really started being a true entrepreneur and got into business. |
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